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COTTON MILLS IN TIIE UNITE/}
STATES.
The following statement is accepted as
a full roport of the number of cotton fac
tories in the United States in 1809, with
tho number of their spindles, and the
amount of cotton spun in each State:
Mills. Spindles. Cotton Spun.
State. No. No. IPIB.
Maine Tl 443,800 ‘38,838,608
New Hampshire. .49 734,400 48,084,430
Vermont, 16 38,038 1,281, US
Massachusetts,...lso 2,386,002 138,081,144
Khode Island, 126 1,082,376 51,938,373
Connecticut, 81 645,528 31,652 930
Now York, 88 437,482 22,097,044
Now Jersey, 30 176,042 10,767, 600
Pennsylvania, ... 71 384,828 34,806,531
Delaware. y 48,802 3,288,280
Maryland, 11 46,502 7,972,896
Ohio, 5 24,834 3,170,000
Indiana, 1 10,800 1,493,061
Missouri, 4 13,436 2,475,000
Virginia, 10 36,060 4,010,000
North Carolina,.. 17 24,249 3,537,000
South Carolina,. 6 31,588 4,174.100
Georgia, 20 69,782 10,864,350
Alabama, 8 25,196 2,820,696
Mississippi, 6 8,752 1,457,000
Texas, 4 8,528 1,372,104
Arkansas, 2 924 258,400
Tennessee, 10 13.720 1,847,200
Kentucky, 3 6,264 1,057,000
Since 1809, one largo factory has gono
into oporation in our city, and one of
smaller size in Savannah, and we think
that two or throe others have been started
in tho State. Tho probability is, we
think, that Georgia has, silico 1809, in
creased her cotton manufacture in a
greater ratio than any other State.
Still, there is groat need of largo in
crease, not only in Georgia, but through
out tho South. Os tho 749 mills reported
above, only 815 are located in tlio cotton
growing States, including Virginia and
Tennessee. Os these Georgia has one
fourth of tho mills and one-third of tho
number of spindles. Such a showing for
tho region raising the cotton—a region
favored with abundant water-power, and
having si large population that would he
glad to get work in cotton factories—is
strange and lamentable.
In the matter of consumption of cotton,
tho South makes a little better show, for
tho number of its mills and spindles.
While Massachusetts consumes r>B pounds
of cotton to the spindle, and Khode Is
land 48, Georgia consumes 165 pounds to
the spindle. (Theso numbers are not ex
act, but near enough so lo show tho rela
tions.) No doubt (ho comparative fine
ness of tho goods manufactured in the
two SLatos named and in Goorgia, respec
tively, lias something to do with this great
disproportion in their consumption of
cotton per spindle. In the North much
calico and other light goods aro manufac
tured, while at tho South tho manufacture
is of a hoavier description. But it is not
a probable supposition that this difi'erouco
in tho character of tho fabrics accounts
fully for tho difference in tho amount of
consumption. Wo think it is to a consider
able extent duo to tho superior adaptability
of the South—in its climate and steadi
ness of water power especially—to tho
manufacture of cotton, and that horoin
lies another great advantage of which we
aro not fully availing oqrselyes.
Tho above facts and figures, added to
the working experience of tho best con
ducted mills among us, very strongly in
dicate that cotton can bo manufactured
more cheaply in our Southorn States,
where it is raised, than in any part of the
world. It is the great enterprise inviting
tho capital and industry of our people,
and promising them a double return in
its own profit and in tho largely increased
profit of the cotton culture.
COTTON UP THE COUNT ICY.
Accounts of the superior condition of
tho cotton crops in tho upper portions of
State, where they planted but little cotton
until this year continue to roach us. The
Gainesville Advertiser of the 12th says
that “Uncle Jack Welekel has tho finest
cotton over seen in Hall county; that ho
will certainly raise from seven to ton halos
from a ton acre field, if no providential
hindrance befalls it; and that the fertili
zer used was stable manure. The same
paper learns that an old farmer near
Gainesville liusseveral bales of now cotton
already ginned and packed —showing the
crop up there to bo ns forward as in this
section. Mr. T. A. Williams, of Catoosa,
informs the Courier in a note of the Bth
iust. that on the 3rd and part of tho 4th
iust. he picked from one and a quarter
acres 400 pounds of fine cotton; and ho
says that cotton planting will be a success
m Catoosa this year. Tho Courier of the
11th hears of Iho appearance of caterpil
lars in Catoosa, but thinks that they can
do no material damage; on tho contrary,
they may be a benefit by thinning the
luxuriant foliage and allowing the sun to
open the bolls.
These aro better reports than we have
from tho cotton fields in the ‘‘belt."
SOUTHERN BONDS.
We copy the following quotations of
“Southern securities” from the Now York
Herald of tho 13th iust., and we ask the
reader to note how close a relation the
value of tho bonds of each State bears
to its party standing. See how low a
value is put upon tho securities of North
and South Carolina, Louisiana and Arkan
sas States that have been wholly or in
part under ltadical rule since the close
of the war; and compare their quotations
with thoso of Georgia and Tennessee —
States deemed entirely free from negro
and carpot-bag rule. Alabama has a gov
ernment politically divided, and it is
deemed very uncertain which party will
succeed in the State at the next election.
Her bonds bear a value midway between
the low figures of the Curolinas, Louisiana
and Arkansas, and the high figures of
Georgia and Tennessee.
The prices of Virginia securities are
not given in this list. It is proper to say
that their value is also very low, and
that Virginia is not a Stato under ltadical
rule. But she has an enormous debt, and
cannot meet her interest.
The following are the quotations of the
Herald:
Tennessee sixes, old, 81,1; Tennessee
sixes, new, 81; Georgia sevens, new, 89;
North Carolina sixes, 01d,27; do., funding,
186(5, 16]; do. 1868, 16]; do., new bonds,
16; do., special tax, 10; South Carolina,
January and July, 14: do., April and Oc
tober. 27. 1 :; do., funding, 1866, 19; Mis
souri six’s, 91 J: Louisiana sixes, levee
bonds, 55; do., eights, do., 55; Alabama
fives, 1883, 45; do. fives, 1883, 45; Arkan
sas sixes, funded, 39, Texas tens, 1876,
85]; Kentucky sixes 100.
YELLOW EEVER AT MEMPHIS.
Tho sickness mentioned in our dispatch
es of tho 15th as existing at Memphis,
and as having caused a panic there, is the
yellow fever. Wo learn this fact from a
Memphis dispatch of the 13th inst. to tho
New Orleans Picayune, which covers an
announcement of its existence by the
Meuipiii s Board of Health. The Board,
lu this announcement, state that about
d.irty deaths from this fever had occurred
‘ 1 Mempiijg since the Ist inst.
V emocrats of Atlanta are forming
ui cin . u ,s au <l making ready for a mu
“‘“‘Pa! campaign.
VOL. XV.
PORT}' THOUSAND DOLLARS EOR
A CO W.
The telegraphic report of the sales at
Utica, N. Y., last week, of high blooded
cattle at marvelous prices, is confirmed
by mail account. One cow sold for $40,000,
and for fifteen cows the immense sum of
$200,000 was obtained. The sales are
said to have been bona fide, and the bid
ding is described as lively.
Now, everybody knows that no cow can
intrinsically be worth forty thousand dol
lars, no matter how choice may be her
blood or other qualities. It was a fancy
price, and could only be paid by a class
known as “tho fancy.” In this very sale
of cattle we may see a condition of affairs
in this country that is anything bnt
encouraging. It shows that while many
people all over the country aro in a con
dition far from prosperous or comforta
ble-while one section containing a third
of its population is almostimpoverished
there are many millionaires who throw
away tens of thousands of dollars for the
purchase of pets or the gratification of
whims. This discloses a state of society
that is far from wholesome. It differs
greatly from tho early condition of the
republic, when all men were independent,
and few eminently rich or lavish. Now cap
ital has tho upper hand, and speculation
or monopoly displays its gains and grati
fies its fancies as at Utica last week.
Can such a state of things bo stable ?
Will not the people he apt to question tho
propriety of continuing it so? If this
immense riches of one class springs from
privileges or monopolies conferred by tho
government, is it not natural that the
people, whoso toil supports the govern
ment, should demand tho abrogation of
such privileges or monopolies? If it is
gained by extortion or dishonost tricks in
trade—tricks that take money from tho
pockets of the many to put it into thoso
of the few—will not the people be apt to
demand tho intervention of law to regu
late things better? Can we be surprised
thut they are making such demands in
some parts of tho country? and can wo
assure oursolves that no financial or com
mercial revulsion will follow reforms
which statesmen and politicians may bo
hastily compelled to make?
We merely intond to throw out a few
suggestions prompted by an event which,
to our apprehension, evinces an undesir
able and insecure condition of society.
In connection with tho gigantic corrup
tions anil defalcations lately disclosed,
and every day being disclosed, it forcibly
presents the condition of affairs that must
have been iu the mind’s eye of the En
glish poet when he wrote—
“Hl laro3 tho land, to hastening ills a prey,
When wealth accumulates and men decay.”
11U TIER IN HIS I) EEE AT.
The proceedings of the Maassachusotts
Kepublican Convention clearly indicato
that thero were considerations or puipo
sos not revealed, which account for But
ler’s unexpected course. Not only did ho
give up tho contest before a balloting
was had, but ho accepted ovoiy resolution
of the platform, though some of them
pointedly condemned the course which ho
had pursued in tho canvass. Among
theso was the resolution denouncing tho
“back salary grab,” winch Butler had
strongly dofonded; also the resolution
favoring “civil service reform,” which
Butler had ridiculed without stint; also
tho resolution relinking the interference
of Federal office-holders in tho canvass in
the interest of Butler. To all of those
resolutions Butler declared his assent and
acquiescence, in a speech delivered be
fore their adoption, and he named each
one of them specially as unobjectionable
to him. His paramount desire seemed
to bo to surrender or compromise every
thing that stood in the way of b ; s entiro
harmony and concert of action with his
party. Now, everybody cognizant of
Butlor’s combnttive and stubborn mature
knows that such a course is quite uncom
mon with him. It is yielding and incon
sistent enough to excito wonder and sus
picion wheu pursued by any politician ;
but when pursued by Beu Butler, it must
bo significant of some deviltry that only
ho can perpetrate.
Central City Park. Parties just
from Macon, roundly assort that Contral
City Park is now tho most beautiful and
romantic spot in the entire South, and
that the grounds and buildings now bo
ing put in order for tho fair beginning
on Monday, October 27, are the most con
venient and commodious for tho purpose
in tho whole world. The large hippo
drome, with a seating capaoity of 20,000
persons, has been removed from the old
Fair Grounds at the Laboratory and put
up in the park, for tho exhibition of live
stock. Anew maheinery hall has also
been erected, and an exhibition hall, ex
clusively for tho use of tho county exhibi
tions of Georgia. Another immense hall is
being erected between the main exhibi
tion hall and grand Rtand, on tho bank of
Hie river. It is fifty by two hundred
feet iu size, and will be two stories high.
Several hundred new stalls for horses,
mules, and blooded cattle are also being
erected, and other arrangements made for
the convenience and comfort of visitors.
Already the entries are assuming immense
proportions, and everything indicates that
the Fair will be one of the greatest de
monstrations ever made in the South. The
attendance will, undoubtedly, be the larg
est ever witnessed on a similar occasion in
Georgia, and the authorities, backed by
tho citizens, are making grand prepara
tions for lodging and feeding all who may
attend.— Extfaula Times.
The Fever at Pensacola. —The Pensa
cola Republican of Saturday says:
This scourge of the Southern coast is
still prevailing here, though in a mild form
compared with what it was in 1867. There
are now comparatively bnt few deaths, al
though there has been an average of at
least one a day ever since about the mid
dle of August, when it first made its ap
pearance. Physicians and those in au
thority unite in advising residents who
are remaining in the city, that it would be
uuadvisable for them to leave now, while
thoso who are absent had better remain
away till after a good frost. The disease
is believed lo be now at pretty much of a
stand-still.
The election of Governor Noyes, Re
publioan, in Ohio, is claimed by his
friends as being assured by ninety thou
sand majority. The struggle for control
of the Legislature and the United States
Sonatorship dependent thereon will be
more animated than that for State officers.
—Montgomery Journal.
The above is a Radical estimate. The
election is close at hand, and we shall
soon see how near the Radical majority
approaches ninety thousand.
A dispatch of tho 15th inst., from San
Francisco reports that Jack Shepard has
successfully accomplished the feat of
walking one thousand miles in one thous
and consecutive hours. lie suffered ex
tremely iu the latter portion of the walk.
The Montgomery State Journal reports
the getting up of a “coal corner” in its
city, “in order to force the Secretary of
State to pay $lO per ton for the coal for
the State house, and that the price will
fall afterwards.”
Miss Fannie Sims, daughter of Dr. J.
Marion Sims, of New York, but for sever
al years a citizeu of Montgomeiy, was
married ou tho 2d, at New Port, Li. L, to
Mr. Charles E. Gregory, “the Jersey City
milliouare.”
London, Sept. 16.- Fifty-eieht buildings
were burned in Aukland, New Zealand;
loss $250,000.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
LETTER EMOM HARRIS COUNTY.
Cataula Camp Meeting Crops Labor,
Lands, Citizens.
‘
BY CAL.rOIiNATUS.
i M r - Editor : Tho ostensible purpose of
our visit into the above county was to at
i tend the Cataula Camp Meeting. The
: meeting was in the pastoral charge of
liev. K. L. Wiggins. Tho encampment
was located last year on the land of Air.
Biggers, who has generously donated 50
acres to the church. There are nine com
modious tents already erected, and to
secure a larger number it was resolved to
hold a meeting the last Sunday in August
j for the next five successive years. The
grounds are to be incorporated and known
| as “Bigham’s Camp Ground,” in honor of
; Rev. R. W. Bigharn, of North Georgia
I Conference, who, when a boy-preacher,
j caused to be erected the first camp-ground
I in Harris county.
It is situated beneath a beautiful oak
| and hickory grove, with two clear bold
j springs adjacent. It will be an inviting
[ place for the purpose designed when im-
J proved with tents, shingle arbor, unob
! structed walks, etc.
The meeting just closed was attended
by ten or twelve ministers, (all the Metho
dist ministers from your city.) Twelve or
fourteen were added by profession of
faith, and the Church greatly revived and
strengthened.
Tho farmers through here are busily
engaged gathering cotton. It opens rap
idly, especially whore tho worm has
stripped the weed, but this is by no
means general. We saw extended fields
untouched. Taking all classifications of
productions, farming in this section has
by no means been a failure.
We saw here, as iu many other parts of
the Stato, crops that have suffered for the
want of work. Tho labor question is a
serious one, but as many have written on
this subject, giving but little .light or sat
isfactory system for controlling or securing
it, we forbear for tho present our views.
Tho majority of lands in Harris are not
very rich, yet they aro desirable. As hero
a man of moderate means can, by indus
try and frugality, roar him a homo, orch
ards of great variety, vineyards, and with
an improved systom of farming, gathor a
competence, livo well and be at peace.
There aro many honored and clever cit
izons in this soction —among them Mossrs.
Watt, Ilines, Bert, Floyd, Hudson, Big
gers, otc. Wo had the pleasure of spend
ing, at tho palatial residence of the latter,
a delightful evening with his ontertaining
and accomplished family, ft is situated
on an eminence surrounded by fertile
vales and luxuriant orchards, 110 has
carried the bee culture to a perfection
marvelous to behold.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Col. John V. Price, one of the most
prominent citizens of Americus, died on
Friday afternoon.
Tho body of Mr. E. J. Phillips, who had
been missing for several days, was found
iu]tho woods near Macon on Friday, mu
tilatod and dooomposed. It is supposed
that he wandered off into the woods,
being under tho influence of liquor, and
died there from tho sudden attack of some
disoase.
The Savannah Advertiser of Sunday
mentions a rumor that Judge Schley con
templates resigning his position as Judge
of the Eastern Circuit.
In the Superior Court of Clayton coun
ty, last week, an old negro man was fined
$75 for selling whisky without a liceuse.
His former master, Thos. Crawford, Esq.,
promptly paid the fine for him and had
him released from jail. We get the facts
from the Griffin JSewst How many car
pet-baggers or scallawags, seeking the
votes of tho negroes, would have done
that much for ono of them ?
Three colored convicts, sentenced to
six and twelve months’ work on the chain
gang, made their escape at Augusta on
Thursday afternoon.
Tho Thomaston llcrald has been told
that the crops in tho mountainous section
of Upson this season, aro better than in
any other portion of tho county —bettor
even than on the rich lands on Flint river.
A lire in Rome, on Monday, burned the
planing mills of Wilson Bros., valued at
$12,000. The building was owned by Mr.
C. E. Hills.
The Bainbridge Democrat of the 11th
reports the death of a negro woman aged
114 years, named Bella Martin. It says
that hor great ago is vouched for by re
sponsible men.
New corn is selling iu the Bainbridge
market at seventy-five cents per bushel,
fodder seventy-five cents per hundred
pounds.
A little son of Mr. Israel, in Sugar
Valley, near Calhoun, died in two hours
ou Friday last from tho bite of a rattle
snake. The replilo was subsequently
killed.
The people of Gainesville aro talking
about establishing a cotton factory, now
that tho farmers of their section are going
extensively into the cultivationjif cotton;
and Mr. T. R. Lombard proposes that if
the people of Hale county will subscribe
$30,000, ho will raise tho $70,000 required
to make up the desired amount for a fac
tory. That is the true policy—let the
manufacture follow as close as possible
ou the heels of tho production of cotton.
Tho ravages of caterpillars are no longer
confined to localities, but have become
universal and are all over the county.
They have played the mischief with tho
crops, and farmers are, in consequence,
very low-spirited. Wo already begin to
hear some swear they will plant much less
land iu cotton another year, and that
from henceforth they will busy them
selves in raising corn and other grain,
rather "than cultivate cotton for worms to
feast upon. — Lumpkin Independent, loth.
A convention of Millers of the State is
called to meet at Augusta ou 24th iust.
We believe that its leading object is to
try to lessen the cost of transportation of
grain. It is to be hopod that they will
find some way to do this.
ALABAMA NEWS.
Up to Tuesday evening, Opelika had re
ceived 42 bales of cotton, against 248
bales to same date of last year. Stoek on
hand I? bales.
The question whether the application
of Paris green was permanently beneficial
to cotton attacked by caterpillars, receives
some light from tho following statement
of the Montgomery Advertiser: “We are
informed that those planters who used
Paris greeu persistently and successfr’ly,
will make better crops' than they had at
ono time auy reason to expect. The young
bolls are maturing rapidly and promise to
repay tenfold all the expenses of the pois
oning operation. We regret that this
good foiame is confined to so few plan
ters.”
Samuel Weaver, of Decatur, was shot
by a Mr. Crenshaw and killed last Wed
nesday. Weaver at first attacked Cren
shaw, and the jury acqu’tted the latter of
guilt.
The people of Garland on the M. &■ M.
R. R., having been sued for the land on
which the town is built, have decided to
build anew Garland 800 yards above tho
present town in preference to going to
law.
Madison, county has not been, so far,
troubled with the caterpillar, but wet
weather has cut the crops shorter than
they would otherwise have been.
Mr. John A. Kirkpatrick, of Cherokee
county, expects to get forty bushels of
rice to an acre from his field.
The New York World says truly that
in the whole South, from the Potomac and
Ohio rivers, to the Gulf of Mexico, there
is no Kepublican party at all except
among the negroes, carpet-baggers and
Federal officers. There is no Southern
State of which the Republicans could keep
control after the next election if Wash
ington influences were withdrawn.
Paris, Sept. 17. M. F. D’Arblay. known
1 as D’Arblay, the elder, is dead.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1873.
THE COTTON CROP.
Mobile ExehangeJ.lveport".
Mobile Cotton Exchange,!
Sept. 11, 1873. )
To the President and Directors:
Gentlemen—Herewith we beg to re
spectfully submit our fourth report of the
growing cotton crop, in the country trib
utary to Mobile, embracing the period
from August Ist to September Ist.
Our correspondence has not been as
large as that from which we furnished
in our last report, very many to whom
we sent questions, having failed to an
swer. We have condensed such as we
have received, and submit the following,
without comment:
ALABAMA.
We have forty-eight replies from twen
ty-one counties in the State. The weath
er during the period named has been
showery, and has been deemed by some
as being favorable to the crop, while
others are of the opinion that it has been
very unfavorable. Daring the same pe
riod last year tho weather was dry and we
had serious complaints of rust and shed
ding.
The boll worm has done no damage in
two counties (Talladega and Jefferson),
some little in seven and serious damage
in the remaining twelve. Theso latter em
brace tho Prairie and Canebrake counties.
The caterpillar has done serious damage
iu all the counties except three (Talladega,
Jefferson and Pickens;) iu these it has
been limited, but in the remaining the in
jury is variously estimated from 25 to 50
per cent.
The question as to the efficacy of poi
son for destroying the worms still remains
in doubt. Some planters have not and
will not try it; some say it is a failure,
while others write in glowing terms of its
entire success.
The bottom crop on the early cotton is
universally reported good; on the late,
from none to fair. Tho middle crop fair
to good on early cotton, and none to fair
on the late cotton. But little top crop is
expected on any of the growths. The
only exceptions to this are Tuscaloosa,
Pickens and Bullock, in which counties
the middle and top crops aro reported
good.
The crop is about two weeks later than
last year on an average for twonty-one
counties. Picking commenced the last
week in August, and the yield variously
estimated from one-third less to the in
definite figure of mare than last year.
In ten counties that gave estimates of
reduction in yield the average is'22 per
cent.
MISSISSIPPI.
We have forty-two reports from twelve
counties in this State. The weather is
variously reported during the period
named; in Kemper it has been dry and
unfavorable; iu Lauderdale, Oktibbeha
and Noxubee too much rain, and iu re
maining counties it has been generally
seasonable. During same period last year
tho weather was dry and we had com
plaints of damage by drouth.
801 l worms are roported as having done
serious injury in the black and prairie
lands, and but little in the uplands.
Tho same applies also to the caterpillar.
In Prentiss county neither worm is re
ported.
As in Alabama tho result of the efficacy
of tho various compounds for destroying
the worms remains iu doubt.
Tho bottom crop is generally fair to
good on both growths, only a few excep
tions in the late cotton. The middle crop
is reported short and very little top crop
expected.
Tho crop is from two to throe weeks
later than last year. Picking commenced
about the Ist inst. Tho yield is estima
ted to be the same as last year in three
counties, and 25 per cent, less on an av
erage in tho remaining nino.
TENNESSEE.
We havo only two reports from two
counties in this State (Gibson and Madi
son.)
Both report the weather dry during the
period named. It has been considered
favorable in Gibson ; and much dropping
of forms and rust in Madison. Last year
tho weather was the same.
No worms of either kind reported. The
bottom crop is reported good, also the mid
dle crop. Some shedding of top crop is
reported in Madison. Tho crop is about
two weeks later than last year. Picking
commenced the first week in this month.
Gibson county reports fully as large a
yield as last year, and Aladison ten por
cent. less.
From tho Macon Telegraph, 13th.
THE NEGRO'S PROMISED LAND.
Another Emigrant Heard From.
Sam Yarbrough, colored, for many
years was fireman for Messrs. Richards &
Rice, at the Rock Mill. But Sam caught
the emigration fever last winter and
caught it bad. He threw up his situation
at the mill, spent his last dollar for an
emigration ticket and went West, full of
big dreams of light toil and heavy pay.
After an experience out there of nearly
nino months, he writes tho following let
ter to his former employer, which shows
that tho enchantment which distance
threw around the view has boon complet
ly dispelled by reality :
Randolph, Tipton County, Tenn., )
September 5, 1873.)
Mr. James llice:
Dear Sir —I am intolerable good health
at this time, but have been sick with chills
for two weeks. I never have, in my life,
been so badly deceived in a country as I
am in this. lam tired of it, and want to
be back with you. This is the sickliest
country in the world, I reckon. The peo
plo are not like our Georgia people—dif
ferent entirely. I want to be back with
you, and if God spares my life and I can
get enough of money Christmas I will be
back. Please tell Antony Ringwood if he
can find Betsy I will be home Christmas,
if I can make money enough to get there
on.
My best respects to old man Horring
ton, Orrie and Frank Jenkins. I want
them to tell all the colored people to stay
in Georgia. If they want to see trouble
let them leave Georgia and come out here.
Tell George Washington howdy for me.
If I livo I hope to see him ; and tell him
to ted ail of his friends and mine when
they see a man from this country hunt
ing hands shun him as they would the
devil. Give my best respects to Mr. Rich
ards. Tell him when I left yon and him
I left the best friends I ever had. Would
to God I were with you to-day. Mr. Rice,
warn all the black peoplo to listen to no
man that comes from this country after
hands ; for they will see trouble and cry
many times to be back iu their old homes
in Georgia. Your friend,
Sam. Yarbrough.
Send my letters in care of Mr. L. Q. C.
McCrary, who came out with us from
Georgia. He wouldn’t stay in this coun
try another year fur tho whole country.
A WORD TO FARMERS.
Editor' of the Selma Times : The corn
crop is said to be short. How are you
going to make another crop without buy
ing corn ? And have you the money to
buy it ? Or are you certain that the com
mission merchants, will be either able, or
willing to advance to you ? And if you
borrow this money to buy it with, can you
afford it ? There is one remedy in your
hands—one way of safety for you to
pursue. It is simple and easy. The
abundant rains have given you a large
grass crop, and the chicken corn all over
the land makes fine forage. If you will
go to work, cut this grass and chicken corn,
cure it, and put it away for mules and
cattle—you can make a crop on one half
of the corn you usually consume. Get
you a good mower and rake, and with two
hands and three mules, you can, in two
weeks, cut and secure forage enough to
supply a large plantation. If you can’t
buy a mower, get you some grass blades—
labor is very abundant and cheap. The
farmer that fails to secure an abundant
supply of long forage must blame only
himself, for it will be his own neglect to
gather and save what has been so abun
dantly provided.
The Farmer’s Friend.
THE DUELISTS.
Richmond, Sept. 16.—Ww. L. Loyall,
W. R. Twiggs, Jno. S. Meodith, duelists,
appeared to-day before Judge Gargon for
trial, but the case not being ready,
they were again admitted to bail in $lO,-
000 each until the October term of Court.
McCarthy has never been able to make an
appearance, being still confined by wounds.
He is gradually improving,
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
1 Washington, Sept. 15.—Postal cars
' hence to New York locked.
Statisticians say the change made by
the coinage act of 1873, making the value
| of a pound sterling $4 86 65-100 will in
: crease the tariff half of one per cent.
Appointments—Drew, Attorney Gener-
I 01, Northern District of Florida; Chas. C.
| Talbott, Postmaster, Brooklyn.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
holds that a person who sells at the place
of manufacture wine made exclusively
from grapes of his own growth is not lia
ble to special tax as a liquor dealer for
such sales, but if selling such wine away
from the place of manufacture is liable.
A vintner, however, who sells wine made
from grapes not exclusively of his own
growth, is subject to special tax therefor
whether selling such wine at place where
made or elsewhere.
Washington, Sept. 15—Commissioner
of Indian Affairs will leave Washington
towards the end of this month for Fort
Sill, where he will join Secretary Delano
and Gov. Davis, of Texas, for the pur
pose of holding conference with the
Kiowahs iu connection with Big Tree and
Santana now at that place. Gov. Davis
proposes as a condition precedent for
formally restoring these Chiefs to their
people, that both the Kiowahs and Ca
manches deliver up or sell their horses,
so they may not have the means to go be
yond their reservation to commit depre
dations, but some other means may bo
adopted to satisfy Gov. Davis should the
proposition be rejected.
THE COTTON CROP.
Washington, Sept. 17. —Tho statisti
cian of the Department of Agriculture,
Mr. Dodge, has returned from Europe,
and after a careful revision of the monthly
returns, gives ‘he following as the pres
ent status of the cotton crop ; The indi
cated increase of area 's a little over 10
percent.; the condition of tho crop is
higher than in September of last year in
Arkansas; the same iu Tennessee, and
lower in each of the other cotton States.
Worms have been move abundant and
their ravages have been disastrous or
sweeping in few cases. The season has
been remarkable for its rain fall, tending
to a further depreciation of the crop; oth
erwise the conditions havo been quite
favorable. Fertilizers have stimulated
growth and labor has been steadier and
more reliable. Tho figures are as follows:
Virginia 98, North Carolina 95, South
Carolina 86, Georgia 90, Florida 85, Ala
bama 85, Mississippi 82, Louisiana 80,
Texas 92, Arkansas 93, Tennessee 92,
Missouri 96. In September, 1872, Vir
ginia 97, North Carolina 100, South Caro
lina 95, Georgia 96, Florida 92, Alabama
88, Mississippi 90, Louisiana 86, Texas
94, Arkansas 78, Tennessee 92. The
plant is shedding leaves and forms from
rains in some portions; in others from
drouth. Rust has appeared in some lo
cr'ities, and both caterpillars and boll
worms aro doing local damago in shorten
ing the life of the plant. Without much
injury to the bottom and middle crops the
crop of Louisiana lacks uniformity—Car
roll returning 100, Caddo 40, Tentas 85
and Rapides 33. J i some places worms
have been present without doing much
damage, while the losses have been heavy
in others. There is a similar range of
conditions in Texas, from very good to
quite poor, though the tho average is
much higher. Worms have appeared in
many ports of Arkansas, with little pros
pact of damage, except to the top crops.
The average condition of crops is much
higher than in September of last year,
Prospects are also good in Tennessee.
Soveral counties in Missouri make returns
of cotton which have never before made
mention of that crop.
The cotton fields in North Carolina
generally make a fine show of vigorous
and fruitful plants, the exceptions result
ing more from the falling off of forms
and bolls, in consequence of too abund
ant rains iu the Fall, than from tho pres
ence of worms. In South Carolina simi
lar damage from excessive moisture and
the caterpillar, threaten a partial or total
destruction of crops in several counties.
The crop appears better in Georgia than
in any other cotton State east of the Mis
sissippi, though there is some injury from
rust and rain, and the caterpillars are
present in force in many counties, but
generally they came too late to cause
more than a small per centage of loss.
The injury from worms and the season
vicissitudes in Florida are somewhat
greater, amounting to 15 por cent, depre
ciation in the condition of the crop. Tho
caterpillars appeared in portions of Ala
bama towards the last of July, but their
ravages havo not been serious until lately;
some counties having been held in check
to some extent by the use of poisons, al
though efforts to combat the pests havo
been general. In some counties in Mis
sissippi the plant is shedding.
ODD FELLOWS.
Baltimore, Sept. 15. —The Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows met. Deptuty Grand
Sire Durkharn, of Kentucky, President;
forty-one Grand Lodges and thirty-one
Grand Encampments represented. Tho
Grand Secrotary reports from January
Ist, 1871, to December 31st, 1872:
Number of lodges in 1871, 4,292; iu 1872,
5,045 —an increase of 753. Initiations,
in 1871, 49,257; in 1872, 59,250 -an in
crease of 9,993. Revenue of the Grand
Lodge and F icampment $3,310,009 53;
in 1872, $4,291,071 12 —an increase of
$981,061 59. Relief of Grand Lodge
and Encampment, in 1871, $1,092,095 43;
in 1872, $1,503,471 40—an increas of
$411,375 98. Members in 1871, 327,377;
in 1872, 385,097 —increase of 57,220.
Baltimore, Sept. 17. —The last report
of Grand Sire Logan was received and
ordered printed. The report reached Now
York yesterday by the Ocean Queen.
Baltimore, Sept. 17. —The report of
the Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows shows receipts to be $51,000, and
expenditures $38,000.
Deaton, Sept. 16.—The next session of
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fe"ows convenes
at Atlanta, Ga.
THE BURNT HAVANA PLAZA.
New Yoke, Sept. 16. A Havana
letter giving the particulars of the late
conflagration there, says the Tacon Mar
ket or Plaza do Vahor, as it was properly
known, was an extensive building of ma
sonry, forming a square of about 600 feet
fronting on each side, and two stories
in height. It was built for the gen
eral purposes of a market. The
quadrangler immense court of tho
vast space was filled with numbers of
booths, woollen sheds and other buildings,
all occupied by butchers, while the lower
sides of the building comprised variety
shops and stands of all descriptions. In
the upper stories lived familios who had
their business and callings in the shops
and stands of the Plaza. Here were to be
found goods of every kind of manufacture.
The actual loss of life is uotknown. Thus
far it is variously estimated from 20 to
500. Thelossof property has beeu various
ly estimated, the lowest putting it at three
and an eighth millions.
A PRIEST RETRACTING.
New York, Sept. 16.—The Times says
Father O’Farrall, pastor of St. Peter’s
Roman Catholic Church, informed his
parish Sunday last he wished to retract
anything dictatorial he may have said to
them during Hs canvass as priest for
pupils for his new parish school, and adds
that this action on the part of the Rev.
O’Farrall is said to be the resu’t of in
timidation from the authorities of the
Catholic Church; that the extreme meas
ures resorted to by him were not ap
proved. The commissioners of education
have taken intense interest in the affairs
of First Ward Public School, the exist
ence of which has been threatened by the
clergy of St. Peter’s. They will uphold
in the ward at all hazards the system of
public school instruction, which has been
so persistently assailed.
BROOKLYN TREASURER BAILED.
New York, September 17.—Sprague,
Treasurer of Brooklyn, was released on
$50,000 bail.
ANOTUR SUSPENSION.
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 1C. — S. H.
Tucker, the oldest banker in the State,
suspended. He has abundant property to
meet bis obligations.
A PROPELLER SUNK.
Many Lives Lost.
Grand Haven, Mich., Sept. 16. —The
propeller Ironsides, of theEnglaman Line
connection with the Detroit and Milwaukee
Railroad, and one of tho largest steamers
on the line, foundered and sunk seven
miles off tk : s port at noon to-day. Her
signal of distress was hoisted, but so ter
rible was the sea, and heav y the wind, no
assistance could reach her. She labored
in the trough of the sea from about 8 a.
m. until the time when she sunk. The
passengers and crew prepared boats to
leave her at 10:30, and the last boat left
at 11:50. When the last boat had gone
about a quarter of a mile from her, she
went down. There were five boats filled
with the crew and passengers. One boat,
containing five men and four women, cap
sized, and only one man of the party was
rescued. Seven fiom the boats have
reached the shore up to this time. One
boat, containing Capt. Swoetman and
wife, and five passengers, has not yot
been heard from. It is feared they are
among the lost. Thirty-two passengers
are known to havo been saved, and four
teen bodies been rocovered. No South
erners.
further particulars.
Chicago, Sept. 16.—Special dispatches
from Grand Haven, Michigan, give the
following account of the foundering of
the propeller Ironsides, off that port:
N. B. Watkins, clerk of the boat, says:
We left) Milwaukee at 9:30 o’clock Sun
day night, with ninoteen passengers anil
a crew of thirty men, and were due in
Grand Haven between 5 and 6 o’clock on
Monday morning. The cargo consisted
of 13,000 bushels of wheat, 5,000 barrels
of flour,! 125 barrels of pork and some
miscellaneous articles. I bis was a very
large cargo, since (lie boat could only
carry 1,100 tons. Tho sea was blowing
from the southwest, which constantly in
creased until it became a terrific gale.
Before day, when tho boat was rolling
fearfully, I went below and found tho
men working at tho pumps. The
water had already put out tho fires and
tho engines wore useless. I then went to
the office and got the passongors’ register,
their money and manifest and returned
to the hurricane deck, where I found
Captain Sweetman getting the foresail up.
lie was perfectly self-possessed fid the
men obeyed his orders promptly. We
were about tbreo miles from shore. A
signal of distress had been raised at
8:30 o’clock. About 1 o’clock the passen
gers were all put in the life boat, for it
was evident that thoyossel must godown.
At 11; 20 the Captain ordered the boats
to be manned. In the first were all the
lady passengers except one; in the second
there were from 10 to 15 passengers and
crew. I took charge of the third boat,
which carried seven passengors, including
ono lady, and two of the crew, besides
myself, all of whom wore saved. After
I had passed off I saw two or three other
boats leave the wreck, in one of which
I supposed the Captain to be. My boat
was hardly a half mile from the Ironsides
whon she sunk, stern foremost, about fivo
miles from shore. It was 10 minutes past
12 o’clock when she disappeared. She
was estimated to be worth about $115,000.
She was thoroughly overhauled last winter
and was considered one of the staunchest
boats on the Lake.
Grand Haven, Sept. 17.—Further par
ticulars concerning the disaster have been
obtained from passengers and others.
The last boat did not leave in time to get
far enough from the steamer before she
went dov j, and was drawn in tho whirl
pool and stamped. The first boat which
left the steamer, containing many ladies,
was capsized, and only one of the passen
gers succeeded in reaching tho shore.
Tho second and third boats reached the
shore. Eight bodies havo been recovered.
Seven remain unclaimed, who will be de
cently buried.
KENT UCIi Y K UKL UX.
Cincinnati, Sept. 15.—Prominent citi
zens of Cincinnati who have been spend
ing several days in the kuklux region of
Kentucky, returned to tho city last night.
They report the county quiet and the peo
ple ready to talk freely about the troubles.
They claim that the accounts of affairs
given recently iu tho Louisville Courier-
Journal are much exaggerated, and that
the troubles will be stopped by due
course of law. One prominent lawyer
stated that he had no doubt there was a
large organization of kuklux, and that
many of them were respectable parties,
who had no sympathy with marauders, and
that within ten days full disclosures would
be made of secret orders, and those who
have repented of their connection with it
would assist in suppressing it. The idea
of martial law is not 1 by anyone.
A well known lawyer of 1 > \on county as
serted that there was no < si:.idished order,
and that offenders were merely common
thieves and murderers. Ou. ncounty au
thorities say that tho murder of tho negro
Whitestone is tho only one which has
taken place in tho county. Two of those
charged with this murder were acquitted
at preliminary examination and three
others escaped from jail a week ago, but
they afterwards gave themselves up to the
authorities, declaring they could prove an
alibi. Their examination is sot down for
to-morrow, and it is thought they will bo
bound over. Owen county people assert
that all concerned in this outrago are ex
membors of tho Federal army.
CATTLE THIEVES LYNCHED BY A
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
New Iberia, La., Sept. 13.—Tho par
ish of Vermilion has been for years in
fested with cattle-thieves. Tho people
have been unable to obtain redress by
process of law, and last year organized a
vigilance committeo ns a last resort. A
largo number of thioves and their confed
erates were given notice to leave within a
specific timo,but iustoad of doing ho, arm
ed themselves and threatened to destroy
the town of Abbeville. The vigilants
pressed them and they scattered.
It is reported that three of tho band
were hanged on Friday, sth inst., and
Wednesday night, 10th iust. One of those
who wero endeavoring to ascapo was ar
rostsd under civ” process at Brashear,
and while en route here was taken from
the steamer Minnie Avery, at Jean
orotte, by a squad of armed men, and
hanged in front of Br. Dungau’s resi
dence, three miles above that town.
All Hnds of vague rumors are afloat
hero concerning the number executed,
but no positive information can be obtain
ed.
TOBACCO TAX.
Washington, Sept. 17. —Commissioner
of Internal Revenue directs that a planter
engaged in making a crop on shares is not
liable to pay a special tax as a dealer in
manufactured tobacco furnished iu supply
to hands employed, snch tobacco to be
paid out of crop produced. The Commis
sioner says the law does not impose this
tax upon every person who shall sell or
offer for sale as in tho case of liquor deal
ers, but uponeveiy person whose sole bus
iness it is to offer for sa’e manufactured
tobacco, and he does not think furnishing
hands constitute such a business as the
law contemplates.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
calls attention to the act of Congress of
December 24th, 1872, requiring every per
son liable to special tax to exhibit con
spicuously in place of business, stamps
denoting payment of such tax and directs
that persons engaged in selling tobacco or
cigars on railroad trains be required to
have their tax stamp properly framed so
that it may be hung up in a conspicuous
place in the car where such sf'es are au
thorized to be made at retail.
MORE BALLOONB.
New York, Sept. 13.—Professor Wise
publishes a card defending his theory of
an easterly air current, and announcing
his readiness to start for Europe at any
time in a gas-tight silk balloon. He also
censures attempts to turn a great scienti
fic experiment into an enterprise for mon
ey-getting. Meanwhile the Graphic peo
ple are arranging for the construction of
a silk balloon for Prof. Donaldson,
while the Philadelphia Herald announces
a balloon enterprise in that city on an entire
ly new plan of inflation and construction.
No charge to the public.
GEN. McCOOK’S SLAYER.
Yankton, Sept. 16. —Gen. McCook’s
alleged assassin has had an examination
“ and been committed for trial.
THE FEVER AT SHREVEPORT.
INTERMENTS ON THE THIRTEENTH.
Shreveport, Sept 14.—The following
is the list of deaths for the twenty-four
hours ending at 6 p. in. on the 13th*
J. C. Current, 34 years; Frank Brooks,
34 years; Rosa May, 11 years; Josephine
Baker, 6 years; Charles M. Pomeroy, 30
years; Charles Manning, ago unknown;
Jacob Mallgam, unknown; Emile Dreyfus,
27 years; W. T. Brooks, 50 years; Johan
ne Lunday, 18 years; Charles H. Neville,
6 years; Robert Booth, 8 years; A. R.
Englehard, unknown; Hugh Smith, 31
years; Louis Schmidt, jr., 18 years; Wil
liam rickering, unknown; Mungo Cane,
17 years; Mariuh Martin, unknown; Mrs.
A. Hendricks, 29 years; Carrie Kellar, 14
years; Jos. Stewart, 28 years; Penioker,
unknown; Mrs. Fanny S. Fleming, 22
years—all white. Fully 600 are sick.
DEATHS FOR THE LAST TWENTY-FOUR HOURS.
Shreveport, Sept. 14. —The following
is a list of the deaths for the twenty-four
hours ending at 6 o’clock this evening:
Thomas Garrett, 36 years; Francis
Franke, 50 years; M. Shepherd, rukuown;
Jacques Lochaiuo, 17 years; Mary H.
Taylor, 36 years; E. B. Anderson, 60
years; G. M. Strodel, 14 years; J. 11. My
er, 35 years; Robert Crangle, 30 years;
Mary J. Reynolds, unknown; T. W. Jack
son, 18 years; jone Mrs. Chas.
Johnson, unknown; W. R. Smith, 15
years; O. D. James, 12 years; L. Asher
Farley, 43 years; Henry liipirsky, 5 years;
one unknown; Joseph F. Ward, unknown;
Edward Warrington, 25 years; August
Ceres, 16 years; Mr. Chapman, attorney
at law; Sol. Simon and John Pleug—all of
yellow fever and all white.
DEATHS OF PROMINENT CITIZENS.
Shreveport, Sept. 14.—The following
is a list of prominent citizens who havo
fallen viotims to the scourge: Robert
Craig, merchant; S. D. Pitts, an old resi
dent ; Joe Ilowell, Dave Weil, merchants ;
J. 11. Williamson, professor in acadomy ;
G. J. Riddle, butcher; Dr. Ilibbette ; Ju
lius Kahn, merchant; Mrs. W. E. Hamil
ton ; Robert Wheaton, a hatter; Chas.
M. Pomeroy, steamboatman ; John Mun
dy, merohant; W. T. Brooks, hotel keep
er ; Mrs. Fannie Fleming, wife of a drug
gist; T. D. Walker, a merchant, and
family; Simon Kahn, merchant; J. W.
McCoy, butcher; L. Asher, brother of a
banker.
Tho 'Times of this morning says: Yes
terday far exceeded rny other day since
the commencement of the epicemic. The
increased number of deaths was no doubt
owing somewhat to tho sudden change in
tho woathor, as well as the ineroased num
ber of the sick. The sudden change from
hot aud sultry Friday evening to cold and
chilly thut night, no doubt hastened the
doath of some, as well as to develop the
fever in others. Tho rain and cold wind
from the north had the effect to purify
the atmosphere, and, in tho cpinion of
our physicians, will be conduoive to tho
health of those who pre now well and will
assist many to recover who stood the or
deal of tho sudden change. It is estima
ted fivo hundred persons are now down
with the fever. The deaths so far umount
to one hundred and forty.
Memphis, Sept. 15. —There are wild ru
mors in regard to yollow fever; trains
crowded with people flying from the
scenes of the scourge; details \i lubtaina
ble, but it’s certain that it i>« ; jjieadiug in
the city. Two undertakers report twelve
interments, nine from yellow fever. The
latest from Shreveport reports fever un
abated ; five of six men in Telegraph
office havo the fever, two of whom are
dead. Twenty to thirty people die daily.
Shreveport, Sept. 16. Twenty-two
deaths last night. Many woro moving
lust night.
Shreveport, September 15—Thii.y-tive
interments to-day.
New York, Sept. 16. — The General
Superintendent of tho Western Union
Telegraph Company, at Louisville, sent
the following dispatch to President Orion
this evoning:
Louisville, September 16, 2 o’cl’k.
Whon tho fever made its appearance at
Shreveport, we had there two operators
besides tho manager. Ono loft immedi
ately. S. J. Roe, manager, and Thomas
M. Jackson, oporator, remained at thoii‘
posts till stricken down. Mr. Jackson
died on Saturday and Mr. Roe on yester
day. Operator Buchanan, of Meridian,
tendered his services aud reached Shreve
port on Wednesday, but wheu Mr. Roe
was tfken sick on Thursday, Mr. Buchan
an returned home and is now ill there.
Oporator 11. O. Davis came from Now Or
leans on Sunday, and is now on duty in
tho Shreveport office. Our repairer has
the fever, but will probably recover. Al
fred Sovillo, although unacclimated, has
gone to help Davis, aud will probably
reach Shreveport to-night. Roe and
Jackson aro supposed to have been the
main supports of their respective families.
Roe’s father is an invalid, and Jackson’s
mother is a widow. Our banker, Mr.
George Pike, and Operator Davis did pU
they could for the relief of Mr. Roe. Mr.
Jackson died before Davis reached there,
bnt he received kind attention from Mr.
Pike. Nearly all who wore able to leave
town have loft, but there are nearly six
hundred cases of fever there now, and the
number of peoplo who aro well is not suf
ficient to take care of the sick. Tho fever
is unusually fatal, and it is believed to bo
Mexican vomito, and to havo been intro
duced by employees of tho trans-Atlantic
circus. It attacked persons who had yel
low fevor in Shreveport in 1867.
Contributions are coming in slowly from
all parts of the country. Physicians and
nurses aro badly needed. The condition
of tho town is simply heart-rending,
and the suffering is something foarfifl. to
contemplate.
Washington, September 16. —Senator
Wost to-day received Hie following dis
patch from tho Mayor of Shreveport:
“Sickness increasing. Do all you can
for us. No money in tho city treasury.
Tho poor aro on our hands, and for lack of
funds wo find difficulty in burying them.”
Liable Rock, Sept. 17.—Yellow fever
is roportod in the sru'ier towns of Nor*h
Louraicna.
Ton circus moil died in Vernon, La.
New Orlfanh, Sept. 17.- -A private dis
patch from Shreveport reports the death
ol' Rev. Father Quemerais and the serious
illness of Father Pierre. There are no
telegraph operators in Shreveport.
New York, September 17.—Four thou
sand dollars has been subscribed for
Shreveport.
New York, Sept, 17. —Dr. F.’.isha Carr,
Register of the New York Board of Health
and Secretary of *he American Pub' ; o
Health Association, in a letter inclosing
SIOO for the Shreveport sufferers, u-gently
roquosts tho Howard Associations of
Vicksburg, Natchez and New Orleans to
send a number of seasoned nurses and
hospital supplies and aid to provide for
all sick. Also, that w.th the municipal
authorities of Caddo parish, in which
Shreveport is situated, speedy mersures
bo adopted for the quiet removal and
shelter (in enempment if need be) of the
unprotected who have not yet fallen by
tho pestilence. He says if removed be
yond the first line of plains and hills that
skirt Red River in that region, entire se
curity can be obtained within a few miles
from tho river. Flight to great distances
will not give tho kind of security that can
be obtained at small cost aud less than
three hours travel. If $5,000 and an ef
fective organization of nurses, together
wiFi a well-devised plan for moving the
unprotected, were bronght into effective
senlce, the day of the pani,c and pesti
lence would soon cease.
Tho General Superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company at
Louisville telegraphs President Orton to
day as follows : The Howard Association
reports J 24 deaths at Shreveport for the
twenty-four hours ending at six o’clock
p. in. yesterday, aud 220 since September
first. There appears to be no abatement
of the disease, except from want of sub
jects. We have two operators there now,
and another loaves here to-night. One
at Pensacola, who has recently had the
fever, will go if necessary.
RIO GRANDE FLOODED.
New Orleans, Sept. 17.—A Brownsville
special says the Rio Grande has over
flowed its banks, for the first time since
’69. The plaza of the city of Camargo is
flooded. From Brownsvi'le to the Gulf
is an unbroken sheet of water. Cotton
crops destroyed.
MEXICAN WAR VETERANS.
New Yolk, September 16. —Veterans
of the Mexican War resolved to form a
permanent organization.
NO. 33.
I GORDON AND HIS KIDNAPPERS.
i Minneapolis, September 17.—1n the
, case of the kidnappers of Lord Gordan at
' Manitoba, .true bills were found. Those
■ pleading guilty were sentenced to twenty
| four years imprisonment. Fletcher, who
plead not guilty, was released on $2,000
| bail. Gordon is in close confinement on
| two warrants from Scotland and England,
for forgery and larceny.
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 10. —Goo.
Gordon, who fled from Fort Gafry to tho
liocky Mountains, is said to have been
1 captured 500 miles west of this plaoo by
a Manitobian detective, and jailed at
Winnepeg. A special term of the Court
of Queen's Bench convened yesterday for
the trial of tho Americans who kidnap
ped Gordon. The Judge’s charge to the
Grand Jury was veiy fair and mild, and
it is bolieved that no true bill will bo
found. It is thought the Attorney-Gen
eral of Minnesota will bo allow'od to ap
pear for tho prisoners, lteil, who made
b-mself so prominent in the half-breed
rebellion, has been summoned as a wit
ness. He is said to bo guarded by 300
half-breods, well armed, and bloodshed is
expected if he enters tho town. The Ca
nadian party brand him as a murderer,
he having caused the death of Thomas
Scott, and declare that it is a disgrace for
him to appear in court. There are par
ties here who have swoia to shoot him on
sight.
MASSACU USE ITS.
Letter from the Democratic ‘Kotniuoo for
Governor.
Boston, Sept. 10.—Ex-Mayor Gaston
in a letter formally accepting the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor, thus al
ludes to the prohibitory liquor law: “At a
time when tho Stato is suffering reproach
for a partial and dishonest enforcement of
somo of its laws, it becomes our immedi
ate duty to soek to execute such laws with
honesty and impartiality, or to repeal
such statutes as cannot be thus enforced.
An experience of twenty yoars, undor
what wo know as prohibitory laws, has
provod that they cannot accomplish tho
great and beneficial purposes for which
they w'ere enacted. They havo not di
minished evils which they were dosignod
to destroy, but they havo brought wi*h
their attempts to onforco them a train of
attendant evils which have disgraced the
administration of justice, and have tended
to corrupt public morals. Somo other
method of promoting by legislation the
causo of tomperanco should nt least be
triod. This cause is too high and noblo
in its character and in its purpose to at
tempt to borrow any aid from injustice,
partiality or corruption.”
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 17.—The Bond
Paymaster train and down passenger train
on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
ltailroad collided fivo miles above Coir Ti
bia this morning at 9:20, smashing both
locomotivos and killing Pnj master W.
Elliott Orchard and a colored man named
Jas. Archny. Engineer Williamston hnd
his leg broken and injured internally, a
colorod boy’s foot crushod, Expressman
Graham thrown twenty feet in tho nir and
cut in tho head slightly. Two Express
cars were smashed; passengers uninjured.
The road hands are at work and will havo
trains running regularly to-morrow.
SAD ACCIDENT.
Atlanta, Sept. 15. — A little girl, threo
yoars old, was run over by a street car;
one leg broken near tho ankle, the other
near the hip joint; also severely injured
across the chest and badly bruised in the
back. Both parents wore absent from tho
city.
INDIAN NEGROES WANTING RE
CONSTR UCTION.
St. Louis, Sept. IG.—Fifteen thousand
negroes, formerly slaves of the Indian
Territory, are moving for a Territorial
Government. They propose holding a
convention in the Choctaw Territory.
Col. Joseph Bradford, an old and high
ly respected citizen of Alabama, died at
his residence near this city on last Sun
day. He was born in Tenuessoo, but
while yet a young man removed to Coosa
county, Alabama, where he resided for
many years, and where an important post
town still bears his name. From Coosa
ho removod, immediately after the close
of the war, to this city. For several
years before tho war ho was a member of
the Now Orleans commission house of
McKloroy & Bradford. As an evidence
of the patriotic impulses which governed
his actions, we state the fact that although
near 02 years of ago when tho war upon
the Confodt .uo States was inaugurated,
ho promptly raised a company and
marched to Virginia, whore he remained
in active service until compelled by phy
sical disability to rclinguish the liold.—
Mont. Adv.
New Orleans letter to the Chicago
Times says: “It is rumored that tho de
facto Governor is sending secret emissa
ries into all tho parishes of tho State, but
for what pii-pose is not stated. It is in
ferred, however, that it is with a viow to
packing the Legislature in advanco of its
assemblage. In tho same connection, it
is rmored that Pinchback has boen either
forced or induced to withdraw his proten
sions to a seat in the Unitod States Sen
ate, and that E. C. Billings, or E. E. Nor
ton will be a candidate for tho same. Tho
popularity of neither wor’d insuro an
eloction. But they both possess wealth,
which is the most potent influence that
can bo brought to bear upon such men
ns constitute tho de facto Legislature.
The foimor made his fortune nioro through
tho influence he is supposed to exerciso
over Judgo Durell than b : s legal ability;
and tho latter accumulated his fortu le
through universal assigaeesbip of the
bankrupt court.”
Mb. Si f’TIKNS. — lion. A. 11. Stephens
lost his ovorcoat nt Dahloncga. Most any
one would bo willing to lose such an arti
cle at present.— Exchange.
The above paragraph reminds us of an
anecdote about Mr. Stophens wnich Gen.
Gordon tells with much unction. Gor
don had it from President Grant, at Wash
ington.
“When tho throe Commissioners mot
us at Fortress Monroe,” says Grant, “Mr.
Stephons came swadt’’ed up from top to
toe in an enormous overcoat. Lincoln
called me aside, as Mr. Stephons was dis
robing, and obsorved : “Grant, what docs
that performance of Stephons remind
you of ?' I answered him : ‘Mr. Presi
dent, I do not know ; but what doos it re
mind you of ?’ With one of his queer
winks, Lincoln said : ‘lt reminds mo of
the biggest shuck off the smallest ear I
ever saw in all my lifo! ” — Augusta Con
stitutionalist.
Cal.-wai a. —The exciting anti-railroad
contest in California is considered to have
terminated in a victory for the people.
The latest figures show that the Legisla
ture (which chooses a United States Sen
ator) is composed of 44 liepublicans, 30
Democrats, and 40 Independents. All of
tho Independents are formally pledged
against the liailroad King; snd some of
the liepublicans and Democrats are reck
oned in the same category, though more
Democrats than liepublicans are hostile
to that interest. It is doubtful, however,
if Gov. Booth, who has been prominently
mentioned as the anti-railroad candidate
for the Senate, will be chosen. It is not
likely that many of the Democrats will
vote for him; and, without re-enforcement
from one of the two strictly political par
ties, the Independents have not sufficient
strength to cast the 61 votes necessaiy to
elect. The situation is an interesting one
and the struggle over tho Senatorsliip is
likely to be desperate.— N. Y. Tribune.
A sad and tragic death occurred in
Chicago last week. Some time last sum
mer Peter Keil was bitten by a mad dog
in the town of Lake View. The dog was
pursued and killed. Since that time Mr.
Keil has been brooding over the idea that
sooner or later he would die from the ef
fects of tho wound, although there had
been no startling manifestations of its
serious character. But the idea had made
the poor victim anxious and restloss, and
almost frenzied, and he had been subject
to violent fits. On Thursday evening it
was evident that the man was in a danger
ous condition, and needed medical atten
tion. Drs. Shoppers and Williams were
called, and remained with him through the
night; but at 4 o’clock yesterday morn
ing, amid fearful sufferings, he expired.
“THE GREATEST OE ALL IS
CHARITX.”
BY CONSTANCE FENNIMOaK JVOOLSON.
O lino tongues, O lithe tongues, sharp-pointed
to kill
The tenierest heart!
O dark words, O low words shot swiftly, and
With delicate art!
whonce come yet O woman, your guilty
cheeks burn—
Against your own sisters tho weapons ye turn.
Go ye to the feet of the Master, and learn that
tho
Greatest of all Is Charity!
O warm faith, O firm faith, sublime canst thou
be
In women made strong!
O blind eyes, O closed eyes, refusing to soo a
lover
Go wrong !
Believing tho son. though ho lies to your face ;
Believing the husband through the darkest dis
grace ;
Why can ye rise to a still higher place
• In tho greatest of all, kind Charity 1
O hope, O far hope, how bright canst thou glow
_ , la mother and wife!
U deaf ears, O closed ears, refusing to know the
Wreck of a life!
Ye cheer fallen man with tho very last breath:
\ e hope against hope to tho gateway of death;
Why can ye not list to the message that salth
Lo! the greatost of all is Okarlty f
Vo see not, ye dream not, tho torturing grlct
of one at
Your side!
Sho suffers In sllionce and finds no relief—
Her tears she must hide!
All wounded, all bleeding, the poor maiden
heart,
Yet swift as the Indian’s pitiless dart
Your keen words are sent to the tendcrcst
part—
Though tho greatest of all Is Charity!
Yo seo not, ye feel not, tho sorrow that chill a
Wife ’neath her load.
G’or tasked and o’er burdened, she struggles on
still
’Noath duty’s sharp goad.
Yo know not the length that hor dally round
makes;
Yoknow not tho cares that her feoblo hands
takes;
Yo add your hard words and the straining
heart broaks—
Though tho groatost of all Is U harity
Yo know not, unruffled, tho battle of Ufo
A sister must wago; .
Yoknow not, untempted, ‘n what deadly strife
Her heart inusqongage.
Sho reaches tho brink, but tho chasm appals ;
She clings with faint clutches to tho slippory
walls,
But down comos your doubts, like a blow, and
sho falls—
Though tho greatest of all Is Charity !
Yo heod not, proud hearts, tho hopeless condi
tion
Os ono who is lost;
It may bo In waves of tears and contrition
Her poor soul is tossed
Your pitlloss scorn koops her back from your
uoor
Your pitiless hand koops hor down evermore"—
Though tho Saviour himself said “Go sin no
more"—
For tho greatest of all Is Charity !
O woman, U woman, tho oarth’s swcotest flow
er,
Croatlons bright crown !
How can yo, how can yo, still chorlsh tho pow
or,
That holds your souls down ’
O lalrost, for whom all our youthlul hearts
burn !
O doa-ost, for whom all our agod eyes yoam !
U ready for Paradise, could yo but loam
That tho greatest oi all Is Charity!
SEIZ JLRISmTn EL OR IDA.
A roport reaches us that Gov. Hart, of
Florida, will to-day trko possession of tho
Florida Central ltailroad, and that if re
sistance is offered ho will call out tho mi
litia to enforce his authority. It is said
that the presont possessors, owners, ocu
pants, or whichever thoy maybe called, in
tend resisting the action of the Governor,
and that thqy have applied to tho United
States authorities for troops to protect
them in the rights which thoy claim un
dor tho late decision of the ULitod Statos
Courts.
Wo give the abovo roport as it comes to
us, without vouching for its entire cor
rectness. It would seem like n very high
handed measure, on tho part of Govomor
Hart, to tako forcible possession of the
road, which has been the subjoct of liti
gation, and the final disposition of which
has been assumed by the courts; but
from his autecedeuts it would not bo safe
to judge the future course of Governor
Hart by any of the rules usually regula
ting the conduot of ordinary men. Wo
are prepared for almost anything from
tho carpet-bag Executive of Florida. If
there is anything loft in the State worth
seizing, and if there is any possibility of
a successful grab, be will, without scruple
or compunotion, fill tho roll of seizer.—
Savannah News, 15th.
Iu this oonneotion wo publish tho fol
lowing, which wo find in tho Jacksonville
Union , of Saturday:
Tn ; Hailboads Cause a Leoal Exodus.
—Quite a number of our legal geutlomen
loft for Washington, Tuesday, on the Dic
tator, to argue the motion to appoint a
roceiver of the Jacksonville, I’ensacola
and Mobile ltailroad, to bo heard before
Justice Bradley, on the 10th instant, in
that city. General W. G. M. Davis rep
resents Messrs. Holland, Ambler and
Denny; Wilk. Call, Esq., the plaintiff,
(Mr. Searls;) Colonel T. W. Brevard and
General H. It. Jackson, Anderson et al.
LIQUORS THAT POISON.
Archbishop Bayloy, of Baltimore, says :
“A roal inspection of liquors wou’d de
stroy two-thirds of our intemperance. Any
roal good govomment should enforce such
an inspection, or stop tho sale altogether ;
becauso the object of government is to
protect the lives of citizens, and, while it
enforces stringent laws against the sale of
decayed vegetables, it is far more impor
tant that it should h : nder tho sale of
drinks which poison tho blood and madden
tho brain.”
There is sound senso in tho above re
marks, but our intemperance Federal Gov
ernment collects over fifty mil’on dollars
a year taxes on poisonous whisky consum
ed in tho country. Besides destroying
the constitution and shattering the lives
of tens of thousands, tho sale of this most
insidious poison causes probably over
half of all tho crimes and family distur
bances in tho United States. It is one of
the universal, deep-seated evils which
thus far has proved to bo incurable, and
is fosterod for purely mercenary motives.
—Nashville Union.
Anothek Balloon Promised.- A Trib
une reporter called on Prof. W. 11. Donald
son last evening to get more fully his
views regarding tho failu-o of the enter
prise than had been possible just after the
catastrophe. 110 said that the bursting of
the balloon was duo to a strong gust of
wind, which struck tho upper part of tho
globe when it was nearly full. Tho
breaking of tho netting, which has been
noted, ho attributed to tho iron bond
which clasped tho lines and to tho ropos
which held tho balloon down. Tho mar
lines wore very thin, and as soon as tho
balloon was partly filled tho groat strain
brought to boar upon tho ropes caused tho
snaps to cut through them like knives.
Danger-ropes should have been used, and
they shor’d have been tied to tho netting,
not faßtenod by small, sharp clasps. It
would bo impossible, ho said, to repair
the damage done to the balloon. Not ten
minutes after the balloon had burst Messrs,
Goodsell had come to him and offered to
bogin as soon as possible the construction
of a now balloon, to bo made of silk, pro
vided ho would endeavor to mp'io a trip
to Europe in it. Ho had gladly accepted
tho offer, and those interested would
meet to-day and make the necessary ar
rangements. Tho construction of the
new balloon would bogin immediately,
and everything would be done to hasten
it. It would probably be ready for him
about the middle of October. The car,
life-boat, and scientific instruments which
had been already provided would bo used.
N. Y. Tribune 13th.
Persian Barbarity.— Sir John Mal
colm, writing from Persia in 1828, de
scribes the case of a chief named Zal
Khan, who coming into disfavor with tho
reigning monarch, was condemned to
have his eyes put out. Failing in his ap
peal for a recall of his cruel sentence, Zal
Khan “loaded the tyrant with curses,”
and, in return, his tongue was ordered to
be cut out. This order was imperfectly
executed, and the loss of half the member
is reported to have deprived him of
speech. Being afterward persuaded that,
if cut close, he might be able to speak in
telligently with the root, he submitted to
the operation, and subsequently told his
own story to Malcolm. These statements
were long doubted, but, in 1857, they
were fully confirmed by Sir John McNeill,
whose inquiries in Persia, sphere this
mode of punishment is common, led to
the discovery of many instances of a sim
ilar nature. The belief is universal in
tnat country, that incision of the tip of
the tongue permanently destroys the pow
er of speech, while its removal at or near
the root leaves tho victim a chance of re
gaining the ability to again speak his
mind. burgeons are agreed, however,
that, for the purposes of talking, the
more there is left of the “unruly mem
ber” the better.— Popular Science
Monthly for September.
Tho rush of freight from New York to
Charleston, by the Great Southern Freight
line, is so great that the steamships of the
Adger and Clyde lines wore ordered, on
Saturday, to discharge their cargoes as
rapidly as possible, and return at once to
New York without waiting for their reg
ular sailing day.— Sav. Mews.